GCC association with the FSF

[Jeff Law]

On 4/13/2021 10:52 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> On 13.04.21 16:40, Jeff Law via Gcc wrote:
>> An EGCS-like split like we had in the late 90s is, IMHO, a definite 
>> possibility here
>
> Such a move would, in all probability, leave both parts of the split
> GCC with too few developers to compete against LLVM, thus rendering
> GCC irrelevant and ruining an important project for free software.
>
> (I don't like the idea, for the record).

I'm not sure there'll be that much of a community split.  Based on what 
I've seen *so far* it'd be less of a split than we had with EGCS.  But 
that's precisely why I want folks to chime in, particularly those doing 
the day-to-date development work -- I want to see what the likely impact 
on the development community would be rather than going with just what 
*I* want.


jeff